Woman behind the arrest of faith healer John of God after claiming he was running a ‘sex slave farm’ commits suicide at her home in Barcelona

Woman behind the arrest of faith healer John of God after claiming he was running a ‘sex slave farm’ commits suicide at her home in Barcelona

Sabrina Bittencourt died after accusing faith healer John of God of sex abuse

She claimed he kept women captive and exported their children on black market

The faith healer has been accused of abusing hundreds of women in Brazil

A woman who helped to bring down a Brazilian faith healer accused of sex abuse has taken her own life in Spain.

Sabrina Bittencourt, 38, died at her home in Barcelona just days after accusing John of God – real name Joao Teixeira de Faria – of running a ‘sex slave farm’.

She claimed young girls were held captive in a farming operation which exported babies on the black market.

The women would be murdered after ten years of having babies in the alleged scheme run by the 77-year-old celebrity faith healer, who was arrested last year after hundreds of women accused him of abuse, she said.

Sabrina Bittencourt (pictured), 38, died at her home in Barcelona just days after accusing John of God – real name Joao Teixeira de Faria – of running a ‘sex slave farm’

John of God, pictured with one of his patients, has been accused of sex abuse by hundreds of women and was arrested last year in Brazil

Ms Bittencourt left Brazil and was forced to live under protection after receiving death threats.

Her eldest son Gabriel Baum confirmed her death, writing on Facebook: ‘She took the last step so that we could live. They killed my mother.’

Sex abuse victim support group Victimas Unidas, who worked with the 38-year-old, said: ‘We announce with regret the death of Sabrina de Campos Bittencourt, which occurred around 9pm on Saturday on February 2 in Barcelona where she was living.

‘The activist committed suicide and left a farewell note explaining the reasons why she took her own life.’

Before her death she was quoted as saying: ‘Hundreds of girls were enslaved over years, lived on farms in Goias, served as wombs to get pregnant, for their babies to be sold.’

‘These girls were murdered after 10 years of giving birth. We have got a number of testimonies.’

Ms Bittencourt had received reports of children being sold for between £15,000 and £40,000 in Europe, Australia and the United States, she said.